Information for Current Students: Writing Competitions

Writing Competitions

Subject: Is it constitutional for a legislative body to require a DNA test for all persons arrested and charged with a felony?
Deadline for entry is June 1, 2012.
- First Place: $3,000, essay published in AJA's journal, Court Review.
- Second Place: $1,500
- Third Place: $1,000

Subject: Any topic in the field of employee benefits law.
Deadline for entry: June 1, 2012.
- Clarin M. Schwartz Memorial Award: $1,500, honored during the College's black tie dinner on September 15, 2012 in Boston, MA, paper may be published in an employee benefits publication, and paper will be distributed to Fellows of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.
- Sidney M. Perlstadt Memorial Award: $1,500, honored during the College's black tie dinner on September 15, 2012 in Boston, MA, paper may be published in an employee benefits publication, and paper will be distributed to Fellows of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.

Subject: Any topic in the field of trusts and estates law, including taxation.
Deadline for entry is June 1, 2012.
- First Place: $5,000
- Second Place: $3,000
- Third Place: $1,000
- Variable Honorable Mention Prizes

Subject: Any topic of interest that reasonably relates to Asian Pacific Americans and the law.
Deadline for entry is June 1, 2012.
- First Place: $1,500, winning entry to be published by UCLA School of Law's Asian Pacific American Law Journal (APALJ).

Subject: Any topic in the area of federal civil practice and procedure, including the civil jurisdiction and venue rules of the federal courts. Submissions on the topics of federal courts management, federal appellate procedure, and alternative dispute resolution will also be acceptable.
For more information about this competition check the bulletin board outside WH 206.
Deadline for entry is June 1, 2012
- First Place: $2,000, full set of Moore's Federal Rules Pamphlets, and $1,000 to the winning entrant's law review or journal.

Subject: Legal issue affecting persons struggling with homelessness, mental illness, addiction, or substance abuse.
Deadline for entry is June 1, 2012.
- First Place: $750
- Second Place: $500
- Third Place: $250

Subject: Any topic in the area of animal law.
Deadline for entry is June 29, 2012.
- First Place: $1,000, potential to be published in Laws & Paws
- Second Place: $500

Subject: Any aspect of California legal history, ranging from the Supreme Court itself, and its justices and decisions, to local events of legal historical importance—including biography, significant cases, independent state interpretation, the California Constitution, and reorganization of the court system, as well as areas of law such as criminal law, civil rights, family law, tort liability, environmental law, and taxation—in any time period from 1846 to the present.
Deadline for entry is June 30, 2012.
- First Place: $2,500, publication in the Society's Journal, California Legal History.

Subject: "The Jurist and the Development of Human Rights in the Business World."
Deadline for entry is June 30, 2012.
- First Place: €1000, free registration at the UIA Congress in Dresden, transportation and accommodation in Dresden from October 31-November 4, 2012 for the UIA Congress, and a year's free membership to the UIA.

Subject: Any federal or state tax-related topic.
Deadline for entry is July 3, 2012.
- First Place: $5,000
- Second Place: $2,500
- Third Place: $1,500

Subject: Any aspect of securities law; securities arbitration; The Federal Arbitration Act, Title 9, US Code, Section 1-14; or FINRA Code of Arbitration, effective April 16, 2007 and any changes or proposed changes to that Code. The writing can be based in theory or practice, but should ultimately advocate a position on the topic area chosen.
Deadline for entry is September 10, 2012.
- First Place: $1,000
- Second Place: $750
- Third Place: $500

Subject: Any subject in the field of securities law.
Deadline for entry is November 16, 2012.
- First Place: $5,000
- Second Place: $3,000
- Third Place: $2,000